How to edit Media Center Recordings

Easiest FREE way I've found to edit Recordings made in Windows Media Center is done using Windows Live Movie Maker (Part of the Windows Live Essentials Free Downloads)I have found that there is some technique involved in making successful edits of the recording.

Open the recording you want to edit in Movie Maker, click save and name the save file what you wish (This file just stores your edit markers and makes no changes to the original recording)

Since most recordings have some overlap, you first need to find the actual beginning and end of the recording, under tools, mark the start and end points using the buttons labeled as such. Click SAVE

Editing the commercials is done in a similiar manner. Browse thru the recording to the start point of the commercial, under tools, click the SPLIT button, then browse to the end of the commercial segment, click split again. (This separates a the commercial portion from the rest of the recording) Right click the commercial segment, Click Delete on the drop down menu and that commercial is deleted (Note the run time is adjusted to the removal point) Click save and repeat on all other commercials.

Once editing is complete, you should have about 22 minutes for a half hour show or 43 minutes for an hour show. Click Save

Here is where I drove myself crazy till I learned the trick. Once edits are saved, CLOSE movie Maker. I don't know exactly why, but I spent a week learning that no matter what I did, 90% of the time when I tried to create movie, movie maker would LOCK UP. Trial and error eventually proved that if I made my edits, then Saved and closed Movie Maker. The re-opened Movie Maker and opened the edit file, that I could then Create Movie successfully every attempt. Click File, Create Movie, and choose your format. (I use widescreen) Saving process is slow, about the length of the show or 1% per minute. This creates a .WMV file about 1/3 the size of the original.

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hi Richard, I found that too, also, when the DVDs had finally burned they all ended early, mostly just half a second or so, sometimes they would only burn say 45 seconds, even though the timeline ( the blue line above the tracks in edit screen) was stretched way past the end. Also it wouldnt upload to You Tube. What we've done, my mate and I, weve downloaded Live Movie Maker, you go to Microsoft site and download , I cant remember, its either Windows Live essentials, its something essentials anyhow,you have to download the whole package but it downloaded easily. I just googled movie maker. the old Movie Maker wont work with Windows 7, but this new one does, we re did all 13 movies of our songs, using the Magix movies we had already made as reference, and they burn easliy to DVD and they upload to YouTube really easily too. We are using MP4 clips, and it accepts those too. We had so much trouble with Magix ive now deleted it altogether and will go on with WindowsLlive Movie maker.

use windows movie maker (included in your windows machine)... it can help you make beautiful slideshow or video clip(e.g. mixing your songs with pictures/video/lyric/etc).... then save it as video file such as wmv file format... finally upload.

or .. Just get those clips you want , save & convert them, and then mix/match with pix/sound/etc using windows movie maker to create new masterpieces....

this will help you.... Use 'zillatube'. This is the easiest (and also the fastest) way.

Import your existing movie into Windows Movie Maker (WMM). If you wish, edit it.
When you are ready to publish, WMM has pre-set compression settings for PDA.
Once published, copy the file to your PDA memory card using a card reader or RAM using ActiveSync.
Note that Windows Media 9 is buggy on VGD machines, and you may see your movie at 1/2 screen resolution you intend. There is no way to fix this. Instead, I recommend Beta Player as an alternative (and more powerful, if uglier) movie player.
http://betaplayer.corecodec.org/download
It is free. Download the Latest Stable Player.